Popera tenor Lim Hyung-joo takes 'one-day detour' into baroque

For nearly three decades, Lim Hyung-joo has been Korea’s best-known pop-opera tenor. On Nov. 20, he will put down the microphone and sing nothing but baroque. Lim, 40, will join Italy’s Orchestra da Camera di Mantova for its first concert in Korea at 7:30 p.m. at Yongsan Arts Hall in Seoul. He will sing three pieces: the “Ave Maria” by Vladimir Vavilov long attributed to Giulio Caccini, Alessandro Scarlatti’s “Gia il Sole Dal Gange,” and “Lascia Ch’io Pianga” from Handel’s opera “Rinaldo.” “When